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Throughout this book we will be discovering and exploring various strategies for problem solving.
The single most important strategy for problem solving is building upon the previous work of yourself and others.
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In this book, we will call this the build on previous work strategy. You may prefer to call it the look it up strategy. The development of the Internet and the Web have made it much easier to retrieve information from libraries and from other people. Moreove tens of thousands of computer programs have been written so that computers can directly solveor help to solve many of the problems that people want to solve. Cognitive Maturity You make routine use of a number of different problem-solving strategies without giving
much thought to them. As an example, often when you are about to make a decision, you think about the consequences of this decision. You mentally “play out” what might happen in the future if you make a particular decision or take a particular action. If you are impulsive—perhaps often acting without thinking of the consequences—you work to overcome this impulsiveness. ou have had years of informal and formal education in this think before your act strategy. It
is now a well-ingrained component of your cognitive maturity. As a parent or teacher, you undoubtedly place considerable emphasis on helping children make progress in this aspect of cognitive maturity.
